Funny, but maybe it is just me at my 70-year old age but I cannot think of the last time I heard any real person use the F-word in my presence. I am sure it is not my regal, distinguished appearance that keeps the 'F' away as I am not above using "hell" and other assorted curse words in my every day speech, but I draw the line at myself using the Big F in mixed company but that may just be me--
I do not object to the 'F' being used in a film where it is appropriate yet I can recall too many times where the 'F' was sprinkled liberally in films just, shall we say, for the 'HELL' of it. In those instances, to me, it was not reality in any way. I am sure lots of young folk use it because it has become fashionable even for our last Vice-President to mutter in public to our last Prez as a matter of fact.
So, enough about the F-bomb as it is a matter of taste these days, not the common sense or common courtesy I was raised in the 1950s to use and respect.
Now, it appears, Imp, that you watched this episode, so answer me this: Did Lorca say he killed all his crew on a past ship because he knew what the Klingons would do to them? Then he alone escaped?
I saw that somewhere on the internet and it struck me that none of the other 'Star Trek' Captains would ever do that. Many times Kirk threatened to blow up the Enterprise to win an engagement but if he did kill the ship, he was killing himself, too. Not running away to save himself. Janeway ever did it twice, I believe, in "Voyager."
If so, that again proves to the max that this is not "Star Trek" in any way, shape or form--
And was such, the reason for cancelling my CBS account.
Gadzooks, ya know what? F#*K 'Sta Trek: Discovery" and the giant size water bear they rode in on!
Yes, Mudd knew he was the lone survivor of his previous command and confronted him about it, so he confessed to Mudd and the female Klingon's rape victim that he blew up the ship to keep the crew from being captured.
They could have made his survival incidental but he said "I escaped" so I presume he set the auto-destruct and ordered everyone to make for the escape pods but only his pod manged to successfully escape.
It's not clear whether Star Fleet knows it wasn't the Klingons that blew up the ship or not but now Mudd does, he was left on the prison ship because he was spying on fellow prisoners for the Klingons, but we all he eventually gets free to suffer at hands of his wife.